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When was the last time you really hosed your computer?
« on: March 25, 2012, 11:51:25 AM »
Being geeky, I have a few running computers, but only one that's fairly "modern".* Which I hosed last Tuesday trying to shrink a partition so that I could add Windows 7 Ultimate for a dual boot. Everything was backed up two days prior, so I didn't lose too much, but still, it required reloading the OS completely.

*The one I'm on right now is one of the older ones that I'm updating, increasing RAM and upgrading the video card. It could run Windows 7 at any level right now, but I want it to howl as loud as it's capable, I can put another gig of RAM and put a much better video card in it. It's 6 years old, but it was a high end motherboard when I got it, even if it's only 32 bit.
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Re: When was the last time you really hosed your computer?
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2012, 10:40:11 PM »
I've hosed a hard drive, motherboard, 2 sticks of RAM, a vid card & 2 sound cards. But never all at the same time.

Luckily the hard drive wasn't the boot drive but I still lost of valuable info.
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Re: When was the last time you really hosed your computer?
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2012, 10:13:19 PM »
Try a power supply failure, they tend to take as much with them as they can. That happened back when I only had one functioning computer, making me absolutely computerless the same day I got laid off. 2002 sucked.
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Re: When was the last time you really hosed your computer?
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2012, 06:10:00 PM »
A few years back, I was installing Linux on the second harddrive on my desktop computer. I was successfull... except I realized afterwards that I accidentally installed it on the primary harddrive, rather than the secondary harddrive, which effectively erased Windows.

I guarantee I won't have that exact same problem anymore... I've since (purposefully) removed Windows from that computer, and I only have Linux installed.

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Re: When was the last time you really hosed your computer?
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2012, 10:14:21 PM »
I was trying to shrink a Linux partition when I hosed things this time. I'm working on Microsoft certs now though. Vista pushed me over to Linux, it really annoyed me. 7 has some neat features though, and has remedied most of what annoyed me about Vista. As an administrator, I really like Applocker and Bitlocker.
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Re: When was the last time you really hosed your computer?
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2012, 12:08:32 AM »
Now I can really hose things. I have a two processor Xeon dual-core 1U server that I finally got Windows Server 2008 R2 loaded on(it doesn't have an optical drive and was being problematic for alternate loading methods)
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Re: When was the last time you really hosed your computer?
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2013, 04:09:47 PM »
I'm pretty sure hosing a computer will ruin it(or any other electric device that isn't waterproof) :P
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